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Pedro Torrão

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Pedro Torrão
Personal information
Full name Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão
Date of birth (1977-03-12) 12 March 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1989–1995 Vilafranquense
1995–1996 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1998 Lourinhanense 16 (3)
1998 Salgueiros 1 (0)
1998–1999 União Lamas 30 (4)
1999–2001 Campomaiorense 61 (1)
2001–2004 Alverca 86 (1)
2004–2005 União Leiria 19 (0)
2005–2007 Beira-Mar 36 (1)
2007 Omonia 12 (0)
2008 Nea Salamina 9 (1)
2008–2010 AEL Limassol 38 (0)
2010–2011 Torreense 4 (0)
2011–2012 Vilafranquense
Total 312 (11)
International career
1997 Portugal U20 3 (0)
1999 Portugal U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão (born 12 March 1977) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

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Born in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon District, Torrão made his professional debut with S.C. Salgueiros in January 1998 after unsuccessfully emerging through local U.D. Vilafranquense's youth ranks and having a one-and-a-half-year spell with the farm team of Sporting CP. In the following seasons he played in the two major divisions in Portuguese football, with relative impact; successively, he represented C.F. União de Lamas, S.C. Campomaiorense, F.C. Alverca (which he helped promote from the second division in 2003),[1] U.D. Leiria and S.C. Beira-Mar.[2]

In late January 2007, at nearly 30, Torrão left the Aveiro side and joined AC Omonia, but only lasted there a few months, moving clubs in the country in the summer after signing with Nea Salamis Famagusta FC.[2]

After again failing to impress, he joined a third side in Cyprus, AEL Limassol, in the 2008 off-season, where he firmly established as first-choice in the playmaker position, rejoining former teammate – in Sporting's academy, Alverca and Leiria – Miguel Vargas; also, he suffered a severe hip injury which sidelined him for several months.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Alverca desfalcado frente ao Sporting" [Alverca undermanned against Sporting]. Público (in Portuguese). 26 October 2003. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c ""Fico triste por ver o Alverca e o Vilafranquense em divisões tão baixas"" [“It makes me sad to see Alverca and Vilafranquense in such lower divisions”]. O Mirante (in Portuguese). 21 September 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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